Hagop Hakobyan was born on May 24, 1923 in Alexandria (Egypt), where, to escape the massacre of 1915, moved his family. At 9 years old his parents sent him to study at an Armenian school in Cyprus. In 1941 he returned to Alexandria and entered the textile factory (it was necessary to help the family).
Three years later, Hagop moved to Cairo, began working as a designer and went to Cairo's Royal Academy of Art supreme. Here is a young man awoke a passion for drawing, exciting him more and more: in 1952 he went to study in Paris - Mecca artists - where he graduated from the Academy Grand Shomier.
In 1953, in Bucharest, held the World Festival of Youth and Students. The painting, exhibited under the pseudonym Emil, received the second prize of the festival. The author of the picture was Akop Akopyan, and he handed her the gift of the Soviet delegation. "I was always worried about the consciousness of spiritual connection with their homeland, and I always tried to make this connection tangible: to live in their native land, to communicate with their people, their country. The true purpose of my trip to Paris was a dream to go out to their homeland. But in those years I was unable to carry out my dream. "
It took nine years, until Akop Akopyan and his family could move to his true homeland, Armenia. Since 1962, he lives in Leninakan. In 1967, he was elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR in 1977, awarded the State Prize of Armenia and the title of People's Artist of the Republic, in 1987. received the USSR State Prize for creating a series of highly water-colors.
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"From the beginning, after his return - I lived in Leninakan - I felt: the relationship with his native land must be carried me through the landscape, because the closer acquaintance with the Armenian nature, the more it succumbed to a mysterious and life-giving power. Armenia - a mountainous country, and everywhere I saw the slope, rises, breaks lines that are related to the nature of people moving and joyous. Nature Saryan, for example, embodies the very soul of our nature. That, and Minas, which has its own way, as anyone before him, look at otchuyu land. Both the artist is to me unique in its purity sample originally Armenian national spirit and character. It was difficult at first to adjust to the Armenian landscape, my character was different. I began looking for landscapes that respond to the warehouse of my nature, but working on the landscape, built them on the horizontal-vertical linear pattern, able to express a calm, most static state.
"The great Hakob Hakobyan? I am afraid that my answer would be trivial to cloying: the fact that he sees the world as no one else sees it. Hagop sees the world not only the lines of space, but also the color, the secret of which are led by himself. It tears the veil from nature, whether landscape, people, and gloves.
It penetrates deep into the subject.
In Hakob Hakobyan was a synthesis of two ancient cultures. About Sarian say that he is colorful, decorative. Hagop Armenian painting returned severe primordial its color, is sometimes found in the ancient Armenian icons.
Hakob Hakobyan truthful, analytic, generous. But he was restless, aggressive, agonizing. He did not flatter his native land, but talking to her on an equal footing.
Hagop had not taken place in the art of others, but let it new branch, which blossomed luxuriantly maturity and color. Hagop not a follower, but prolagatel. Few falls creators such a nice lot. "
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Anatoli Zlobin. "Generous Hagop"
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